Sunday, May 17, 2009

A date with lace

As you may or may not have heard, over at Ink & Spindle Teegs has been dragging Bianca and I along to Lace Class. Okay so dragging probably isn't the right word. After I convinced her that the Citylink tunnel doesn't represent certain death it hasn't been so bad driving over to Ashburton on Monday nights and being all nannariffic.

In class, working the bobbins...

Teegs and I in class

And then we even had homework to do...

Working on my ground stitches homework...

I know, that's a hellava lot of pins....

Et voila!

Okay so you're probably looking at this and thinking that lace making has the potential to drive you certifiably mad. But... surprisingly enough, it's actually quite enjoyable. It's quite a good distraction from all the racing thoughts in my head, it forces me to focus on something else.

I was in barcelona the other week and all the regions lacemaking groups had a big meeting/possibly competition, The park in the centre of the Rambla del Raval was filled with long lines of trestle tables and hundreds of little old catalonian ladies making lace and checking out eachother's work.

I just saw this posting from you and laughed. You may be interested in my post from yesterday. I recently saw a woman working on an amazing lace piece and took a short movie. http://www.dianekappablog.com/